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Quotes from The Status Of Linguistics As A Science — Edward Sapir

1884–1939 Germany

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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

The Status Of Linguistics As A Science (1929)

The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached … We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

The Status Of Linguistics As A Science (1929)

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